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MIKE BURN Generally Crazy Guy
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PLX180
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Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 1:56 pm Post subject: Re: 11 years in jail for using the Internet in China..... |
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I was working in China about a year ago, and noticed a few things.
The hotels can recieve normal satellite TV, including asian style pop shows. This gives the impression to visitors that the whole population can see it too. But they can't. It's only in the hotels for foreigners.
Also, at the market I was attending, all our company leaflets were confiscated by the "leaders" overnight from our stand. We just turned up on the morning of the market to discover that all our stuff had been taken! No warning or explanation was given. We eventually got them back after having to cut out the offending page from over 300 leaflets. The problem was a picture of Chairman Mau on the same page as a picture of Hitler. They were totally unrelated though.
Bizarre in this day and age. But the people accepted it totally.
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bbchris Princess Of Hongkong
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PLX180
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bbchris Princess Of Hongkong
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droolymutt No Underblurb
Joined: 25 Jul 2002 Posts: 6721 Location: Montreal, Canada
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Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 5:20 pm Post subject: Re: 11 years in jail for using the Internet in China..... |
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Having been born and raised in Canada, it still knocks me off my feet to hear stuff like that.
I STILL can't understand how a select few can inflict such wrongness on everybody else.
Is it because of money? Is it because of the Devil? Moral weakness? Is it because the World isn't perfect, the way I thought it was when I was a child?
That's why I love music. Helps me forget that stuff for a while....
An occasional beer helps, too..
sigh...
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Shauna Skye
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bbchris Princess Of Hongkong
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Shauna Skye
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Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2002 2:15 am Post subject: Re: 11 years in jail for using the Internet in China..... |
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Chris, I was born and raised in a Chicago suburb, but the ancestors came from Wales and England. Most of my family lives in Georgia (USA).
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bbchris Princess Of Hongkong
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PLX180
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PLX180
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Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2002 3:03 am Post subject: . |
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I remember a skating rink in the middle of the city. When we arrived it was in the middle of the night. We had to trudge through the snow in darkness to find some food. Black sludge (the snow I mean).
"High Fidelity" was set there wasn't it? Didn't see John Cusack when I was there though........
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